Gert Åke Fylking (born 7 October 1945) is a Swedish actor, journalist, politician (

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) and host of the radio programme Gert's Värld on Radio 1 101,9 FM, where he is known by the nickname of ''Fylking Sverige'' (a handle translatable as ''Your Man Fylking of Sweden''). He has participated in many theatre productions, films and TV programmes. He is married to Tanja Fylking; they have six children and live in Stockholm. Among his friends are

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and

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, and especially the late

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(since their childhood).

Live

Fylking grew up in

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and spent large parts of his youth in the Stockholm Archipelago. He joined the Swidish Forces at the

Älvsborg Coastal Artillery Regiment The Älvsborg Coastal Artillery Regiment ( sv, Älvsborgs kustartilleriregemente), designation KA 4, was a Swedish Navy coastal artillery regiment of the Swedish Armed Forces which operated between 1942 and 2000. The unit was based in Gothenburg ...

(KA 4) in

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in 1966. He was then sent as a platoon commander to the "Coastal Hunter" School at Vaxholm's Coastal Artillery Regiment (KA 1). He enrolled in the Royal Naval Academy. Fylking has previously been noted for its association with the nation-wide known criminal and addict

Radio host

Presently, together with Titti Schultz and Roger Nordin, Gert Fylking is anchorman of the show noted above. He is also known for bursting out in a loud sarcastic exclamation ("Äntligen!" - meaning: "Finally!") at the press conference where the name of the winner of the

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(

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) was announced in 2000 and doing so again in 2001. Nevertheless, he made peace with Horace Engdahl on the radio and ceased his exclamations - however, this ''tradition'' he had created was taken over by others who still continue to exercise it. The friendship with Engdahl has been reported as ''on-again-off-again'' (2009).

Controversy

On 17 April 2012, Fylking likened

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s to

Anders Behring Breivik Fjotolf Hansen (born 13 February 1979), better known by his birth name Anders Behring Breivik () and by his pseudonym Andrew Berwick, is a Norwegian far-right domestic terrorist, known for committing the 2011 Norway attacks on 22 July 2011. On ...

on his show ''Gert's Värld'' (Gert's World). While talking about the Norwegian

mass murderer Mass murder is the act of murdering a number of people, typically simultaneously or over a relatively short period of time and in close geographic proximity. The United States Congress defines mass killings as the killings of three or more p ...

, Fylking mentioned that "the world is full of these Breivik characters", and continued: "We’ve managed to catch many others as well. We caught these Serbians who acted like bloody swine and killed hundreds of thousands of fleeing people. We caught them. But do you think they are judged by the Serbians? No, the Serbians hail them as heroes. So who are the psychopaths? Is it the majority of the Serbian population that are stupid or is it just these people who are convicted of war crimes that are idiots?" After strong public reaction including a letter of protest to the station by Serbia's ambassador to Stockholm, Dušan Crnogorčević, Fylking apologized for the statements, but was suspended from work indefinitely.

Selected filmography

* 2006 - ''Bilar'' (

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- film) * 2002 - ''Heja Björn'' (TV series) * 1997 - ''Adam & Eva'' * 1996 - ''

Evil Ed ''Evil Ed'' is a 1995 Swedish horror comedy film directed by Anders Jacobsson and starring Johan Rudebeck, Per Löfberg and Olof Rhodin. The film's plot follows film editor Edward Tor Swenson, who begins to go insane and embark on a murder spree ...

'' * 1996 - ''Silvermannen'' (The Silver Man - Miniseries) * 1994 - ''Rapport till himlen'' (Report to Heaven - Miniseries) * 1992 - ''Nordexpressen'' (The Northern Express) * 1992 - ''Ha ett underbart liv'' (Have a Wonderful Life) * 1992 - ''Hassel - Svarta banken'' (Hassel - The Black Bank) * 1984 - ''

The Man from Majorca ''The Man from Majorca'' ( sv, Mannen från Mallorca) is a 1984 Swedish crime thriller film directed by Bo Widerberg. It is based on the novel ''The Pig Party'' by Leif G. W. Persson. The film stars Sven Wollter and Tomas von Brömssen. The nove ...

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